My little
man Marley turned 3 last year and to celebrate, we had a train themed
party at this gorgeous little miniature train place.
The
day could not have been more perfect, the weather was perfect and everybody had
such a great time, adults and kids alike! Admittedly, I was completely
exhausted after spending night after night getting everything ready, but it was
all worth it in the end. He is turning 4 this Friday and everyone keeps asking
me if we can have his party at the same train place again!
I was too busy enjoying the
party to get some really great blog-worthy photos but a friend of mine did
manage to get some good ones for me.
PARTY DETAILS:
THEME
Trains! Blue, turquoise and red colour scheme.
VENUE
Morphett Vale Railway,
South Australia
INVITATIONS
little house inspired.
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| Train ticket invitation |
I wanted the invites to look like train
tickets but still be fun and personalized with his photo and in keeping with
the colour scheme.
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| Thank 'choo' thank you tags |
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| Name labels for lolly bags |
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| Cupcake circle toppers |
DECORATIONS
Happy birthday banner and
tissue paper pom poms-little house inspired. (and helpers!)
other round lantern thingys
(?) were from Martha Stewart's party range at Spotlight
Balloons-Spotlight Sparty’s
Train decorations-Ikea
CAKE
little house inspired.
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| Marley's 3rd Birthday Train Cake |
The cake was two tiers
(bottom tier dark chocolate mud, top tier caramel mud). I like to have fun with
my cakes and create a bit of a story with them, particularly
for children's cakes. The bottom tier was covered in 'grass' (piped
buttercream) and the top tier was a little landscape setting with a 'tunnel'
carved in to it. I made the fondant train topper a few weeks in advance.
CUPCAKES & COOKIES ETC
little house inspired.
vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing. The lolly train
decorations I made the night before by cutting up various licorice lollies and
'gluing' them together with leftover icing.
I also made train shaped cookies using a train shaped cookie
cutter and red and blue cake pops with number 3's on them.
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| Train and Number 3 Cupcakes |
well that was Marley's 3rd
birthday. This year, I am combining both birthdays into one party in the middle
of both their birthdays (November 18th).
We first considered 'Neverland' as the theme, but Marley is just
not into the tights *sigh*. We then fell in love with the Lorax movie so
decided that would be our theme but then I thought, being the middle of
November it would be so nice just to get all our friends and family down the
beach together so....beach party it is!
Lisa xx
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